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authorGravatar Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de> 2013-08-21 21:50:55 +0200
committerGravatar Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de> 2013-08-21 21:50:55 +0200
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developer-guidelines.sgml: Allow special value "U"
Allow a literal "U" to be specified in place of an actual value within the performance data string. An "U" corresponds to RRDtool's "UNKNOWN" value; i.e., it's meant to indicate that data acquisition failed for some reason. PNP4Nagios already supports this extension.
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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
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@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@
<listitem><para>min and max are not required if UOM=%</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>value, min and max in class [-0-9.]. Must all be the
- same UOM</para>
+ same UOM. value may be a literal "U" instead, this would indicate that the
+ actual value couldn't be determined</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>warn and crit are in the range format (see
<xref linkend="thresholdformat">). Must be the same UOM</para>